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"But who's going to keep talmudic learning going, if the Jews don't do it? Who's going to continue Native American dance and lanauge...a few anthropologists? To put it another way: who will turn "the mass-graves of the forgotten," to those very nearly buried products of historical Jewish creativity, into "enduring monuments" of those "remembered and cherished...?"

‘The Jew,’ Sartre writes, 'cannot choose not to be a Jew…to be a Jew is to be thrown into — to be abandoned to — the situation of a Jew; and at the same time it is to be responsible in and through ones person for the destiny and the very nature of the Jewish People. The authentic Jew, makes himself a Jew, in the face of all and against all."

the best way i can describe this book is academically neurotic

“Instead of Jewish pride — whatever that might mean, but I’m sure it’s not good — I propose Jewish pleasure, Jewish joy.”